Why not just put the telescopes in a geostationary orbit around the Moon so they are always on the dark side and therefore shielded from the Earth? Soft landing telescopes of any significant size is hard work. The only reason lunar telescopes makes more sense than space telescopes in lunar orbit is if you build the lunar telescopes from lunar materials... and we're not anywhere near that capability yet.
I think consumers should consider inter-operability more when making their spending decisions. Yes, when choosing a free service it is important to get your money's worth.
pah. No-one who knows anything about sats has any serious belief that this re-entry is any more of a danger to the general public than any other re-entry. The claims that sat might contain classified information that the military want to destroy is about as credible - i.e., not.
This is why the term "molecular manufacturing" was coined.. because although "nanotechnology" was clearly defined by Eric Drexler, people have just pissed all over it for decades, so we need a new word.
Heh, I've received more legal threats than I dare to count and respond to all of them in the same way - I ignore them - so don't be too proud of your research there.. I've never heard back from any of the supposed "lawyers" who have contacted me either.
Heh, Reznor is a try hard. He encourages people to "steal music" because he thinks it makes him sound all underground and cool, but when you actually listen to him being interviewed you quickly discover that he's a big fan of copyright.. he's just not a big fan of his label. So when he says "steal my music" he's not saying it in an ironic "haha, as if music is property anyway" kind of thing, he's literally saying that he should be the one lording it over his fans, not his label, and so yeah, fuck them over for me. That's about as anti-establishment as forming a political party for anarchists.
Dude, if you're a musician and don't like it, maybe you should just get another job, but the vast majority of musicians consider it entirely unlikely that they get paid for doing what they love.. and thus the real job comment.
*I* never said that. You can't ascribe motivations to a group of people then get upset when not everyone in that group holds the opinions that you think they have.
I actually know quite a few professional musicians, including composers, and not one of them considers it a "real job", so what the hell are you talking about?
Prince and Trent Reznor, the loudmouths who feel the need to tell the world how much they hate their record label, and how they are embracing self-publication and, in the case of Reznor, how corrupt The System is, man, and we all should rebel or something.. then, at the drop of a hat, they'll be standing on the copyright dole line saying "gimme gimme gimme".
No they cant. Are you trolling or are you just stupid? Seriously. You might as well be suggesting that Macenroy can play tennis via a webcam and a cellphone. "ok. Little to the left. Alright now throw the ball up and hit it. Try to get it on the line.. I said *on* the line you dumb %@&$!"
What's more unfortunate is that NASA has a habit of doing it. The Moon was declared "explored" after landing at six places on the equator and picking up some rocks.
Let's not forget the most unlikely place where we've found life: the human stomach. It was assumed for over a century that the stomach was just too acidic for microbial life.. then some Australian medical researchers claimed to have discovered microbes that live in the stomach and were literally laughed at for decades before they managed to culture them. Robin Warren and Barry Marshall won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2005 after showing the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a key role in the development of both stomach and intestinal ulcers.
"The rovers [can] do in a day what a skilled field geologist can do in 30 seconds." -- Steve Squyres.
Squyres was given the 2005 Wired Rave Award for science by Wired for overseeing the creation of Spirit and Opportunity that had, at the time, lasted thirteen times longer than expected.
As we approach sol 1500, this means the rovers have done about 12.5 hours of field geology. And that's being generous, as Squyres was talking about the combined work of both rovers and only one of the rovers has been operating at full capacity.
So maybe, just maybe, Andrew Knoll is a little premature in declaring the planet dead.
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You're going to need that for telescopes on the surface too.
Why not just put the telescopes in a geostationary orbit around the Moon so they are always on the dark side and therefore shielded from the Earth? Soft landing telescopes of any significant size is hard work. The only reason lunar telescopes makes more sense than space telescopes in lunar orbit is if you build the lunar telescopes from lunar materials... and we're not anywhere near that capability yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer
and lay off the trolling.
You mean other than free access to a site which would otherwise not exist?
You notice I didn't reply to any of these idiots? Sometimes it is best to let fools be content in their own ignorance.
pah. No-one who knows anything about sats has any serious belief that this re-entry is any more of a danger to the general public than any other re-entry. The claims that sat might contain classified information that the military want to destroy is about as credible - i.e., not.
That this is just a response to China's ASAT test of January last year?
China: you see, we can blow up your satellites!!
USA: aha! We can blow up your satellites too!!
General public: Why are they blowing up satellites?
This is why the term "molecular manufacturing" was coined.. because although "nanotechnology" was clearly defined by Eric Drexler, people have just pissed all over it for decades, so we need a new word.
Heh, I've received more legal threats than I dare to count and respond to all of them in the same way - I ignore them - so don't be too proud of your research there.. I've never heard back from any of the supposed "lawyers" who have contacted me either.
"selectively".. as are most laws these days.
Uh huh. Or maybe the spyware/malware people are just doing as shoddy a job at developing for Vista as the rest of us in the industry are.
Heh, Reznor is a try hard. He encourages people to "steal music" because he thinks it makes him sound all underground and cool, but when you actually listen to him being interviewed you quickly discover that he's a big fan of copyright.. he's just not a big fan of his label. So when he says "steal my music" he's not saying it in an ironic "haha, as if music is property anyway" kind of thing, he's literally saying that he should be the one lording it over his fans, not his label, and so yeah, fuck them over for me. That's about as anti-establishment as forming a political party for anarchists.
Dude, if you're a musician and don't like it, maybe you should just get another job, but the vast majority of musicians consider it entirely unlikely that they get paid for doing what they love.. and thus the real job comment.
*I* never said that. You can't ascribe motivations to a group of people then get upset when not everyone in that group holds the opinions that you think they have.
I actually know quite a few professional musicians, including composers, and not one of them considers it a "real job", so what the hell are you talking about?
Prince and Trent Reznor, the loudmouths who feel the need to tell the world how much they hate their record label, and how they are embracing self-publication and, in the case of Reznor, how corrupt The System is, man, and we all should rebel or something.. then, at the drop of a hat, they'll be standing on the copyright dole line saying "gimme gimme gimme".
Get a real job.
Duh, of course they do.
You really don't have a clue do you?
No they cant. Are you trolling or are you just stupid? Seriously. You might as well be suggesting that Macenroy can play tennis via a webcam and a cellphone. "ok. Little to the left. Alright now throw the ball up and hit it. Try to get it on the line.. I said *on* the line you dumb %@&$!"
Field geologists don't need x-ray spectrometers.. they can just *look* at a rock and know what kind it is.
http://xkcd.com/331/
Perhaps this will help.
What's more unfortunate is that NASA has a habit of doing it. The Moon was declared "explored" after landing at six places on the equator and picking up some rocks.
Let's not forget the most unlikely place where we've found life: the human stomach. It was assumed for over a century that the stomach was just too acidic for microbial life.. then some Australian medical researchers claimed to have discovered microbes that live in the stomach and were literally laughed at for decades before they managed to culture them. Robin Warren and Barry Marshall won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2005 after showing the bacterium Helicobacter pylori plays a key role in the development of both stomach and intestinal ulcers.
"The rovers [can] do in a day what a skilled field geologist can do in 30 seconds." -- Steve Squyres.
Squyres was given the 2005 Wired Rave Award for science by Wired for overseeing the creation of Spirit and Opportunity that had, at the time, lasted thirteen times longer than expected.
As we approach sol 1500, this means the rovers have done about 12.5 hours of field geology. And that's being generous, as Squyres was talking about the combined work of both rovers and only one of the rovers has been operating at full capacity.
So maybe, just maybe, Andrew Knoll is a little premature in declaring the planet dead.